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Portrait of Marthe Marie Tronchin
Jean Etienne Liotard · 1758/61
Provenance
Ownership history
- Husband of the sitter, Jean-Robert Tronchin (died 1793), Geneva [invoice]; by descent to his brother, François Tronchin (died 1798) [invoice]; by descent to Jean-Louis-Robert Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Louis-Rémy-Nosky Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Henri Tronchin [invoice]; by descent to Robert Tronchin, by 1925 [Geneva 1925]; by descent to Christiane Tronchin, Marquise de Hillerin, Geneva, by 1948 [Paris 1948]; sold Xavier Givaudan, Geneva, 1950 [invoice and letter from Guy Stair Sainty of Jan. 25, 1985 in curatorial file]; by descent to André Givaudan, Geneva, by 1974 [Geneva 1974]. Léon Givaudan [invoice]. Sold by Stair Sainty Matthiesen Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1985.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Geneva, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, "Liotard," May 1-31, 1925.
- Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, "Jean Étienne Liotard/Johann Heinrich Füssli," April-June 1948, cat. 18.
- Geneva, Musée Rath, "De Genève à l’Ermitage: Les collections de François Tronchin," June 21-September 15, 1974, cat. 15.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1988-May 31, 1990 (installation).
Literature
Published references
- "Catalogue des oeuvres de Liotard," Pages d’Art (May 1925), p. 104 (ill.).
- François Fosca, Liotard (Paris, 1928), p. 162.
- François Fosca, La Vie les Voyages et les Oeuvres de Jean-Étienne Liotard (Lausanne, 1956), p. 81.
- Renée Loche and Marcel Roethlisberger, L’opera Completa di Liotard (Milan, 1978), pp. 109-10, no. 228 (ill.).
- James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 208 (ill.).
- Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 134 (ill.).
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